{"id":6755,"date":"2015-11-12T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T04:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2015-11-12T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T04:22:47","slug":"acoustic-blues-guitar-elmore-james-style-lick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/acoustic-blues-guitar-elmore-james-style-lick\/","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic Blues Guitar Elmore James Style Lick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of times you want to play some blues and you just need something simple that will fill in the spaces between the vocal lines.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, something that moves easily from chord to chord, sounds great, and isn&#8217;t too hard to play so you can concentrate on singing or whatever else might be going on.<\/p>\n<p>So to that end I&#8217;ve got an idea for you in the old Elmore James style. Now I did it on acoustic and without a slide, but it works equally well on electric with or without a slide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_skPNl3Ud2E?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Need to download this video? <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/Acoustic-Blues-Elmore-James-Style-Riff.mp4\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/Acoustic-Blues-Elmore-James-Style-Riff.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of times you want to play some blues and you just need something simple that will fill in the spaces between the vocal lines. Better yet, something that moves easily from chord to chord, sounds great, and isn&#8217;t too hard to play so you can concentrate on singing or whatever else might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6756,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}